The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-25
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


Indiana Coal road, says the company has fully |
determined to build o branch of the road to !
Rockville, Ind.
Superintendent Snyder. Route Agent Wilson |
and the auditor of the Baltimore & Ohio EXPRESS,
were in the city yesterday strengthening out the
affairs of the company generally.
V. T. Malott, vice president of the Union Kali
way Company, and general manager. who mas
been quite i'll for several days. is so much better
that he at his Office part of the day yester-
day. =.
C. r. Luther, Of Valparaiso. Ind, who sued
the Pennsylvania Company for $l2. 600 claimed
as damages to his property by an overflow OF tne
plainufs land was on Thursday awarded YER
dict of $50 by the jury.
A. j. Cassatt one OF Pennsylvania's railroad
kings has a great desire to own the best horses
TO be found. He has just added to his STOCK
Farm in Chester county, Pennsylvania, me
Percheron stallion that cost him $lo,ooo
The c., l., ST. L. & c. company has con.
tract TO haul 9 600 car loads OF Plttsburg coal
from North Bend on the Ohio river to the In
dianapolls works. and are now delivering
the coal at the rate of fourteen cars per day:
Andrew Mertns of Marion, superintendent
of the c., ST. l.. & P. track from Hartford City
to Logansport, has been awarded the superin-
tendent's prize of $780, and the managers prize
of $50 for the best-kept division between Pitts
burg and Chicago.
The late remark Of Judge Cooley that. in his
opinion, the payment of commissions is prohlb-
peculiar importance now that his appointment
of the commissioners is confirmed Com
missions will have to 60.
r. D. Hughes, general superintendent, and F.
C. Fargo, division superintendent of the Ameri :
can Express Company, visiting the princi-
pal offices of the company in the State, making
themselves acquainted with the agents and post
ing them on business matters.
General Manager Beach, of the Bee line sys-
tenn. hopes to operate the road this year on 60
per cent. of the gross earnings. Last year
GO l6 100 per cent. of the gross earnings was re-
uuired, and in 1885 it took rs So 100 per cent of
the gross earnings to operate the road.
Thomas Rodd, of Pitisbure civil engineer and
architecJ of the new Union railway station, is in
the city, ard yesterday he stirred up the con-
tractors who are moving so slow IN laying the
foundation in manner which will doubtless
result in pushing the work with more vigor.
The large increase in tonnage of mail matter
Tor the Southwest, which is carried over the
Pennsylvania and Vandaa lines. has necessi-
tated the increasing of the number OF postal
cars, and on through train No. two postal cars
are hauled and on the fast mail three or four.
The c.. II. G. d. company receiving new
box-cars at the rate of thirty per day. The In
dianapolis, the Terre Haute and the United
States rolling stock companies filing their
orders for $50 each as rapidly as possible,
and the company is finding ample use for the
cars as soon as delivered.
The journal has official information that the
TO the Lake Erie g. Western syndicate is a
square deal. the latter paying SO 900 900 in cash
and assuming the first mortgage bonds placed
on the road by the l., p. & G company, amount
ing to 1926 600 and falling due in 1891
o. G. Pamateer has been appointed agent of
the Baltimore & Ohio Express Company at this
point. vice d. r. Bacon, who has been acting
agent since the company opened up for bust
ness here. Palmateer is old expressman
having been an agent of the Adams Express
Company at Oney, ILL.,, for some years.
The Indianapolis works are now turning
out nineteen new cars per day. besides doing
considerable repair work to line 1t is now
some three mon this SINCE Chas E. Gore took the
general management of these works, and he,
without largely increasing the labor pay roll
has doubled the production Of the works per
week.
The Muskegon works are to be started up
again. A new company to operate them has
beeh organized, with John Torrent, a wealthy
lumber dealer of Michigan, president: H.
Register, who has represented the Indianapolis
car works at Chicago as vice president and H.
q. Burgess formerly superintendent of the
Terre Haute car works, as general manager.
Sensational statements have been sent out
relative the reported sale of the Florida
Railway and Navigation Companys railroads to
Austin Corbin and syndicate. but there is no
foundation for the rumors. Mr. Corbin has
been making tour through the State at the
suggestion of B. s. Henning. president of the
Florida system. VINO is personal friend of Mr..
Corbin.
The dock facilities and the land on which the
tracks of the indianapolis Peru a Chicago road
laid within the city limits of Michigan City
belong to V. T. Malott. and 1t will be necessary
for the Lake Erie & Western people to make ar
rangemeuts with Mr.. Malott for their use. He
owns the dock facilities on both sides of the har-
hor. In the not distant future this will be valu-
able property.
''On Time" is again the rule on the time board
marking arrivals of trains at the Union Depot,
xtDx-, x1,,+t No. hnJr t11A :e
time is lost the supern tendents allowing il
to be made up. Thus far this year. in proper
tion to the number Of trains run, the Vandala
makes the best record. The Bee line and l. G.
St L., and the l.. ID. & and the l., B. g. w.
we'll. all make favorable record. For some
days IN January and February the northern
lines were more or less troubled with snow and
their trains delayed, but since this trouble is
over their trains seldom running into the
Union Depot late.
Two or three of the Eastern roads out Of In.
dianapolis have given notice that they will re-
reive no freight at less than tariff rates after the
2Gth of this month, while others propose to con
sinue taking business at the present cut rates
until the first of April, and one agent who is
noted rate-cutter, boasts that he shall take bust
ness below tariff up to the 18th of next month
Should he the Western arrangements will have
an opportunity to test the trunk lines to the
sincerity of their resolution that they would
take no freight billed at less than tariff rates
unless it was at the western termini of thu
trunk lines by April f.
The special committee of railroad officials an
pointed to arrange new and uniform system o.
train signals have been in session for two OF
three days at Pittsburg The committee con
sists of K. II. Wade. Of the Wabash system wht
is chairman; J. T. Harahan, of the Louisville &
Nashville road; c. Garham of the New York
Chicago & St Sonis road; e. B. Stone, of tn,
Chicago Burlington Quincy, and E. b. Thorn
az. Of the Piedmont Airline. These gentlemen
have been holding meetings for a number O
months past An effort will now be made t,
definitely decide upon uniform system of new
rules. The committee will make their final re
port at the time table convention which will b.
held At the Hotel Brunswick, New York. O,
April IL.